Jean Lambert-wild is a theatre-maker and theatre director born in 1972
in Réunion. He is the artistic director of Theatre de l'Union â€"
Centre Dramatique National du Limousin, and the director of
L'Académie de l'Union, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Théâtre du
Limousin.[1]In 1979, his father, who was a livestock farmer, created
the farming cooperative Sica Révia.[2] In 2012, the cooperative was
composed of 323 livestock farmers. As a child, Jean Lambert-wild
experienced the creation of this cooperative as an initiatory event,
which mythology continues to influence several of his projects. At the
time, all he dreamed of was “the sea, Conrad and pirates†.[3]
After several extravagant attempts to escape the island during his
adolescence, he eventually moved to mainland France in 1990. He
settled in Lyon and started studying for a BA in Philosophy at Lyon
III University. It is there that André Arcellaschi, his Latin
lecturer, incited him to direct plays by Plautus, Seneca the Younger
and Gombrowicz.[3] He considered joining the Merchant Navy, but
shortly before saw a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters by German
director Matthias Langhoff. This production had a strong impact on
Lambert-wild, who realised that theatre was the medium that would give
him the freedom he had been looking for.[4]Lambert-wild learned his
craft assisting several different theatre directors. First, Michel
Dubois, who, having found an interest in Lambert-wild's writings,
invited him to work at La Comédie de Caen. From the role of
apprentice, he moved on to become assistant director, thus
progressively acquiring the basic tenets of his theatrical vocabulary.
He then became the assistant of Jean-Yves Lazennec, Philippe Goyard
and more prominently Matthias Langhoff, whom he assisted for several
years.[5]In 1990, he wrote and directed Grande Lessive de Printemps
(Great Spring Clean), which premiered at Espace 44 in Lyon.[6] This
was the beginning of his Hypogeum, a complex body of work that
Lambert-wild constructs over the course of his lifetime.
in Réunion. He is the artistic director of Theatre de l'Union â€"
Centre Dramatique National du Limousin, and the director of
L'Académie de l'Union, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Théâtre du
Limousin.[1]In 1979, his father, who was a livestock farmer, created
the farming cooperative Sica Révia.[2] In 2012, the cooperative was
composed of 323 livestock farmers. As a child, Jean Lambert-wild
experienced the creation of this cooperative as an initiatory event,
which mythology continues to influence several of his projects. At the
time, all he dreamed of was “the sea, Conrad and pirates†.[3]
After several extravagant attempts to escape the island during his
adolescence, he eventually moved to mainland France in 1990. He
settled in Lyon and started studying for a BA in Philosophy at Lyon
III University. It is there that André Arcellaschi, his Latin
lecturer, incited him to direct plays by Plautus, Seneca the Younger
and Gombrowicz.[3] He considered joining the Merchant Navy, but
shortly before saw a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters by German
director Matthias Langhoff. This production had a strong impact on
Lambert-wild, who realised that theatre was the medium that would give
him the freedom he had been looking for.[4]Lambert-wild learned his
craft assisting several different theatre directors. First, Michel
Dubois, who, having found an interest in Lambert-wild's writings,
invited him to work at La Comédie de Caen. From the role of
apprentice, he moved on to become assistant director, thus
progressively acquiring the basic tenets of his theatrical vocabulary.
He then became the assistant of Jean-Yves Lazennec, Philippe Goyard
and more prominently Matthias Langhoff, whom he assisted for several
years.[5]In 1990, he wrote and directed Grande Lessive de Printemps
(Great Spring Clean), which premiered at Espace 44 in Lyon.[6] This
was the beginning of his Hypogeum, a complex body of work that
Lambert-wild constructs over the course of his lifetime.
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